MINAKO IWAMURA
Minako Iwamura’s work explores the interplay of geometry, patterns and color and their psychological undertones. Her work has varied from a series incorporating fractals in its pictorial structure and evoking elements of nature, to the most recent series introducing silhouettes of vessels that connote entities. She is interested in dualities - the coexistence of abstraction and representation, geometry and nature, singular and the collective, premeditated delineation and intuitive movements, to name a few. Through these dualities, she portrays a particular state that hovers in a precarious spot of in- betweenness and its psychology.
For this group show All In One, Minako is pleased to share a series of work denoting the various state of being by means of ubiquitous vessel form and lines. Vessels, to her, embody a sense of envelopment, encapsulating the essence and the core of a matter. What began as a simple expression of lines against abstraction of a form soon developed into a keen awareness of overlapping silhouettes and color combinations leading the painting itself to dictate its own forming, as if they are entities with their own inner workings and characteristics, and taking an unexpected intrinsic direction. Thus, Minako began to see these paintings as abstract portraits of a state of being. They are open to be felt as abstraction as well as representation, retaining a duality and ambiguity.
Born in Australia, educated in Tokyo and in New York, Minako received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited her work at Artist Space, Front Room Gallery, 80WSE Gallery, Mayson Gallery, Vermont College of Art, The Cluster Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Lorimoto Gallery, White Box, among other venues. She lives in Brooklyn and works in Ridgewood, Queens.
For this group show All In One, Minako is pleased to share a series of work denoting the various state of being by means of ubiquitous vessel form and lines. Vessels, to her, embody a sense of envelopment, encapsulating the essence and the core of a matter. What began as a simple expression of lines against abstraction of a form soon developed into a keen awareness of overlapping silhouettes and color combinations leading the painting itself to dictate its own forming, as if they are entities with their own inner workings and characteristics, and taking an unexpected intrinsic direction. Thus, Minako began to see these paintings as abstract portraits of a state of being. They are open to be felt as abstraction as well as representation, retaining a duality and ambiguity.
Born in Australia, educated in Tokyo and in New York, Minako received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited her work at Artist Space, Front Room Gallery, 80WSE Gallery, Mayson Gallery, Vermont College of Art, The Cluster Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Lorimoto Gallery, White Box, among other venues. She lives in Brooklyn and works in Ridgewood, Queens.
